8:32 PM,
Apr. 10, 2013

Jose Valverde

Written by

Dick Scanlon
Detroit Free Press Special Writer

"There's not too many closers right now on the market," Valverde said after pitching off a mound at Tigertown. "I have to do my job no matter what. I know I'll be pitching this year. I don't know where - if it's in Mexico, Japan or wherever. It's 100% I'll be pitching."

Valverde, 49-for-49 in regular-season save opportunities in 2011, anchored the Tigers' bullpen for three seasons before a postseason meltdown last year. In Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Yankees, he inherited a four-run lead when he ...